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The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations.

by: Britton, John, 1771-1857

Publication date: 1807

Topics: Satire, English, English wit and humor, Pictorial, Satire, English, Wit and humor

Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries; medicallibrary

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: English

Rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

Item Size: 549.8M

xvi, 223 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : 12mo (17 cm)

By John Britton; occasioned by James Beresford's The miseries of human life; or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. London, 1806. Cf. Halkett & Laing

Added engraved and hand coloured title-page headed: Mirth versus misery. The pleasures of human life

Plates drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson; frontispiece drawn by W. Satchwell, engraved by W. Bond

Colophon: Printed by J. M'Creery, (Late of Liverpool) Black Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, London